Extension Practice

What is Extension?

A history in Australia

Performance Indicators and Benchmarking in Extension

Pareto's Law

To assist extension planning

Diffusion of Innovations Theory

Founded by Everett Rogers

Peter Honey and Alan Mumford

Learning Styles

Bennett's Hierarchy

Extension Program Evaluation Model

published - 28 August 2016

Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS)

The Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) is “a network of organisations, enterprises, and individuals focused on bringing new products, new processes, and new forms of organisation into economic use, together with the institutions and policies that affect their behaviour and performance,” (World Bank, 2006:16) that is, the way different agents interact, share, …
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Agricultural Innovation Systems, AIS, Innovation, Network, Partners, Value chain

Methods & Tools

published - 26 August 2016

Agricultural Extension and Rural Development: Breaking out of Knowledge Transfer Traditions

Ison and Russell state that traditional first-order R&D (Research to knowledge to transfer to adoption to diffusion) has failed to take the social, political and environmental context (this includes the RD&E practitioner with their thinking and actions) into account when developing solutions. In other words, the RD&E system is a …
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Engagement, Experiential Knowledge, Knowledge making, RD&E, Self reflexive

Theory

published - 22 August 2016

Stakeholder Analysis Tool

Stakeholder analysis is an important initial step in project work as it is a process that can provide insights into and an understanding of the interactions between a project and its stakeholders. This tool can identify and prioritise which stakeholders can have impact on the project’s success and is often …
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Prioritise, Rank, Stakeholder Analysis Tool

Methods & Tools

published - 22 August 2016

Personality Test: DISC (Get To Know Yourself and Others Better)

Image source: John Fallon, YouTube Presentation, Published August 10th, 2012
DISC is commonly used as a tool to get to know yourself and others better, and how this applies to our behaviour in interpersonal situations. The tool is used to make communication more effective. More specific versions of the DISC assessment …
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DISC, Personality patterns, Personality test

Methods & Tools

published - 20 August 2016

Extension as a Knowledge System

This model of engagement is based on the ideas of knowledge systems being a series of interrelated functions and processes using terms such as knowledge brokering, knowledge translating, knowledge exchange and knowledge mobilisation.
In 2012, at a conference hosted by the United Nations University – Institute of Water, Environment and health …
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Framework, K*Spectrum, Knowledge systems

Methods & Tools, Theory

published - 10 August 2016

Farming Systems Research

There are numerous definitions and practices around Farming Systems Research (FSR). However, according to the ACIAR definition of Farming Systems Research it is:

Research related to the smallholder, subsistence-orientated agriculture sector because this is the principal target group for FSR through ACIAR;
FSR projects are multidisciplinary and holistic in perspective, therefore projects …
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Farming systems research, Researcher

Methods & Tools

published - 1 August 2016

Agricultural Extension Information and Knowledge as Public and Private Goods

Umali and Schwartz developed a schema that categorises agricultural knowledge and information into an economic classification system. This system denotes the character of the knowledge and information and the degree to which farmers are prepared to pay it. The categorisation is used to inform the appropriate roles for the public …
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Appropriate roles, Economic classification system, Funding, Private sector role, Role of government

Theory